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Teenage Pregnancy
Most teenagers today are not ready to be parents. ... Who is to blame for the increase of teenage pregnancies today? ... This essay will try to distinguish the relationships between such factors as, consequences of teenage pregnancy, teenage pregnancy rates, teenage contraceptive use, prevention in teenage pregnancy, sex education and health risks to the teenage mother and the child. ...
Preventing teenage pregnancy, it seems, will take more than throwing money at the problem. ...
According to the National Center for Health Statistics the problem of teen pregnancy affects more and more young girls every year. More than 1 million teenage girls become pregnant and four out of the five teens are unmarried. ... Of all the girls who gave birth at the age of 15, 82 percent are daughters of teenage mothers. ... This fact relates to approximately 80% of all teenage parents who drop out of school, never return (nearly 80 percent of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare) (Brisbane 234).
Although there are thousands of teenage mothers in the world, the teen birth rate has declined slowly but steadily from 1991 to 2001 with an overall
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decline of 27 percent for those aged 15 to 19.
Approximate Word count = 899
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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